Guidelines

Information for Students

These ideas were contributed by our developers and users. They are sometimes vague or incomplete. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas, you may wish to contact the developers and find out more about the particular suggestion you're looking at.

Being accepted as a Google Summer of Code student is quite competitive. Accepted students typically have thoroughly researched the technologies of their proposed project and have been in frequent contact with potential mentors. Simply copying and pasting an idea here will not work. On the other hand, creating a completely new idea without first consulting potential mentors is unlikely to work out.

Adding a Proposal

Please follow this template. If you don't have Confluence access please submit your idea, following this template to the clojure mailing list with the subject prefix [GSoC Idea]. Also, feel free to add new categories.

Project title (heading level 3)

Brief explanation: A few sentences describing the problem to solved.

Expected results: What should the student have been able to produce at the end of the project. This includes things like tests and documentation.

Knowledge prerequisites: If a student needs to know something to be able to complete the project, be sure to list it.

Mentor: Add your name if you are developer who is willing to be a primary or secondary mentor for the project.

If you are not a developer but have a good idea for a proposal, get in contact with relevant developers first.

Project Ideas

Core Clojure

Lean JVM Runtime

Brief explanation: The current Clojure/JVM runtime is fully-featured, and can become even more fully-featured with projects like core.typed. However, sometimes it is important to have a leaner runtime that is less resource-intensive. This is ideal for instances where Clojure serves primarily as a library or in lean runtime environments like Google App Engine or Android where a quick startup is desirable. The goal of this project would be to create an alternative lean Clojure runtime and associated compiler. The compiler may be based either of the standard compiler or the ClojureScript compiler. Clojure vars would compile to static fields or methods. It will be necessary to find out which subset of the language makes sense (for example, vars would probably not really exist anymore).

Expected results: A lean Clojure runtime and compiler (well, some good progress to this end)

Knowledge prerequisites: A thorough understanding of Clojure and some familiarity with byte code generation for the JVM.